What Happens When Congress Needs To Use Something They Accidentally Cut Funding To?

What Happens When Congress Needs To Use Something They Accidentally Cut Funding To?

The sequester was designed to be so awful and impractical to the American people that Democrats and Republicans would have no alternative but to put aside their petty differences and work out a reasonable budget. It became crystal clear that partisanship runs deeper than intelligence when the sequester clicked into place and horrific budget cuts took over. If that wasn't bad enough, Congress' list of things to fix seems to have been organized by someone with no concept of what America needs. You know, someone like ... uh ... well, Congress.

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